A boy struggles to fit in at a new school in this wordless story with a big message about childhood anxiety and the power of kindness and acceptance. Realistic and intense black, white, and grayscale illustrations tell the story in... Read More

Poetry is marvelous transportation. Africa beckons—you want some of me?—and the poet takes pains, takes pens to the stuff of his life, so that we can experience the Zimbabwe in the man. An Oberlin College creative writing assistant... Read More

Poets and words, a relationship built on endless frustration and betrayal. That’s not what I intended to say. Sorry, bard, that’s what you get with me. Certain poets embrace the ambiguity, as if potential misunderstandings raise a... Read More

In an enchanting tale of friendship and harmony, a brown-eyed boy and grey-furred wolf get lost in the woods and find each other. Parallel stories meet in the middle. Expressive and lyrical, the narrative alternates between human and... Read More

An engaging testament to the joys of new parenthood, the journey from the day baby arrives through the formative first year into toddlerhood is related in sweet rhymes with lots of love and emotion. In refreshing perspective,... Read More

This cross-curricular gem is a beautiful tribute to the many colors, shapes, and fluid forms of water, striking artwork and rhyming verses tell the story of the shifting, flowing, frozen, molten, misty matter. It explains the three... Read More

Sometimes the smallest words are the hardest to say, and “no” is downright impossible for the ever agreeable Mr. Yes. Stuck in a rut of unhappily accepting everything from eating a slug-slime sundae to purchasing a can of invisible... Read More

The extraordinary life and times of Moe Berg, professional baseball player turned international spy, are chronicled in a brief biography, beginning with his humble origins in New Jersey as a student with a voracious appetite for learning... Read More